There are lot of myth about Google PageRank, some expert says that PageRank or PR is useless and others says it worth focusing it. Lets find out what to do with PR.

First of all, lets see that it has something to do with our ranking or not. PR is not related to ranking but it can give us idea that how much our site worth. We get PR on our domain when we have other sites linked to us, so we need same thing for better ranking in Search Results. If we have better PageRank that means we have sites linking to us and our ranking should be good.

But, for better ranking we need link from related sites not just random sites and our PR can be improved by any random good PR sites backlink.

Some people focus their business on PR, especially Directory Marketers ( I was one of them). The higher PR you have in your directory, the more traffic and money you earn.

So if you use PR for just idea of ranking and analyzing your site then it is good but if you think that you are failed because you don’t have PR then you must think again.

1. India is the world’s largest, oldest, continuous civilization.

2. India never invaded any country in last 10000 years of history.

3. India is the world’s largest democracy.

4. Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called “The Ancient City” when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

5. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

6. The World’s first university was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

7. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software – a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.

8. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.

9. Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India’s wealth.

10. The art of Navigation was bornin the river Sindhu 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit ‘Nou’.

11. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.

12. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.

13. IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.

14. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.

15. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.

16. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).

17 The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world’s population.

18. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

19. India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.

20. India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.

21. India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.

22. India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.

Famous Quotes on India (by non-Indians)

* Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

* Mark Twain said: India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

* French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

* Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said: India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Free SEO Strategy Offers Consistent Results

Understanding how to optimize your website for search engines can be a challenge, particularly because search engines seem to change their algorithms as frequently as people change their underwear! There are methods that involve the use of keywords, methods that you pay for, and others that you can do for free. This article will address a free SEO strategy that works consistently – even when search engines keep changing how they determine which sites to reward with the best search positioning.

If you’ve had a website or a blog for awhile, you’ve probably heard the saying “Content is King”. Not only do people use the internet to look up information and find solutions to their problems; but the search engines are focused on content when they’re “deciding” which websites to return in the search listings each time someone types a phrase into a search engine. You can use articles and blog posts to boost your search engine positioning over time. The more consistent you are with this SEO strategy, the better it will work for you.

Article Directories

There are thousands of websites online which exist for the sole purpose of categorizing articles available for web developers and newsletter publishers to re-print. These websites are called article directories. Anyone is able to write articles on the topics of their choice, create an author’s byline (including a link to their own website or blog) and distribute the article to directories. Once the article(s) are in the article directories, they can be found by people who would like to re-print the article on their websites, blogs and newsletters – and as long as they include your author byline and link, they can re-use the article.

Each time the article is published online, you have another incoming link to your website. Most of the time, the links will be coming from websites that are in your industry – so they are weighted more heavily by search engines than if you had a link from a website with a subject matter having nothing to do with your article.

In addition, people who are reading your article(s) on other websites are likely to be interested in what you have to offer – and are likely to click the link to find out more. Article directories can help deliver direct traffic to your website from people reading and clicking on the links.

Write Articles for Other Newsletters or Blogs

In addition to using the article directories, you can also find newsletters and blogs with a large readership volume within your industry, and ask if they’d let you write an article to include. Many times, the blog owner or newsletter publisher is happy to have an article for free, and will allow you to link to your website from the article or in the author byline, provided you write an informative article that is useful to their readers. When contacting blogs for permission to post an article on their site, it’s typically referred to as “guest blogging”. Popular blog owners are likely to be familiar with this term and know what you’re looking to do if you contact them to ask about guest blogging on their site.

You have to include the canonical tag in the desired web page’s head section. Here is a look at how you have to include it:

<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.xyz.com/product.php?item=the-matrix“/>

You have to however remember that the tag can only be used on the pages that are under a single site. The pages may include sub domains as well as sub folders. You can choose from the absolute and relative links. However, the search engines strongly recommend that you should use the absolute links. This will eliminate chances of any errors in the future.

The tag is transitive in nature. For an instance if you use URL X marks Y as canonical, and Y in turn marks Z as canonical, Z will be treated as canonical for both X and Y.

The Canonical tag is basically applied to the URLs of the web pages that hold a duplicate content. Since they are to be included in the <head> tag of the duplicate pages, you will be simply adding the preferred version of a URL.  This way you actually go ahead and instruct the search engines that the URLs in question should direct to the preferred URL of your choice.

By using the canonical tag, all the links to all the URLs are simply consolidated into one URL which has been specified as canonical. This URL will be considered as a ‘strong hint; by the search engines. The canonical tag will help search engines like Google with the task of identifying the duplicate URLs. They will use it to crawl through and index.

They will also understand that the duplicate URLs with the canonical tag are all actually referring to the URL that you want the visitors to see. Such URLs are known as canonical URLs.

I am regular Orkut user and member of OUG community where today I found information about this typo by Google. You can see image below.

I never heard the word Affortable before, may be it is new creation by Google.
You can find this at http://www.orkut.co.in/html/advertise/IN/large.html, if you can’t fine it then don’t blame me, may be its fixed by Google.

From wordpres post – http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/

I’m very excited to announce to everyone that the latest and greatest version of WordPress, version 2.8 “Baker,” is immediately available for download. 2.8 represents a nice fit and finish release for WordPress with improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. We also fixed over 790 bugs. This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker

So its time to upgrade my all blogs. They have added 180 features, changes, improments.
You can read the full list of over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the Codex.

They have done a great job again. This is world best blogging and publishing platfarm.

After weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have swept in and bought Sun. The deal is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt, with Oracle buying Sun at $9.50 per share.

The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison in the press release, “Oracle will be the only company that can engineer an integrated system – applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Our customers benefit as their systems integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.

This is a fantastic day for Sun’s customers, developers, partners and employees across the globe, joining forces with the global leader in enterprise software to drive innovation and value across every aspect of the technology marketplace,” said Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO, also in the press release, “From the Java platform touching nearly every business system on earth, powering billions of consumers on mobile handsets and consumer electronics, to the convergence of storage, networking and computing driven by the Solaris operating system and Sun’s SPARC and x64 systems. Together with Oracle, we’ll drive the innovation pipeline to create compelling value to our customer base and the marketplace.

source – http://java.dzone.com/news/oracle-buys-sun

Google did it again but little late. It was supposed to be in end of march. This is not done yet as different datacenters showing different results for PR. It started yesterday and still in progress. My sites are going up and down.

Some PR checker showing I am good PR but some showing negative. I can’t post my stats this time as I am not sure. I can’t see any big changes in Google Algorithm this time with PR. It is same as last update.

Google also updated Toolbar PR, It was updated last time at starting of this year.

As soon this update wil finish I will check my sites again and post progress of my sites here.

Finally Alexa updated their design to a new cool looking style. It was a boring and old looking site but new design making look better.

They have updated lot of things including Navigation, the way data shows etc. I think they also changed their method to calculate Alexa rank because most of webmaster sites yesterday rank is not so good as compared to other day but traffic is still same. And my non-webmaster sites have better rank now.

you can read more here.

If you are and Indian or your sites are based on Indian traffic then I don’t think you are going to miss golden chance. I am not holding any contest for IPL. This is you can earn form your site by just adding some information news about IPL.

Cricket is most popular sports in India ( I think this is only popular sports in India) and people are bored with 50 overs long cricket matches, now 20-20 over matches are everyone’s favorites. I am not a big SEO expert but from the last year Google search result I can predict that this year searched related to IPL will increase. Last year in IPL season everyone was searching for IPL matches, news, team information etc.

Orkut, most popular social networking site in Inida, is also preparing to earn money from IPL this year, I have no idea what they are going to do but as of now all youngster use Orkut so it is good time for Google to earn money from it.

I am making a site Related to Indian Premier League to earn some extra money this summer. I am planning to it advertise at orkut, youtube and other social sites so I can get more and more visitors.

If you don’t have any work then you can start a blog just to give updates of IPL, do little link building and your blog will be in SEs. Use Google Trends to check what you should write so you can get more traffic. Try to use Adsense, affiliates won’t do anything here as people just want to know about cricket. Use simple template where is it easy to get what they are looking for. Add a leader board ad on top to get some extra click and higher CTR, near top navigation menu add Adsense link ads, add rectangle under post title.. My all sites related to India get better CTR, so I am not going to miss this IPL.